Month: October 2005
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Order and Chaos
This photo is a nice visual representation of the juxtaposition we sometimes encounter in different contexts between order and chaos:
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Digital Literacy and the New Teacher Education
I have spent all morning reading and thinking about a very long but excellent article in the current (October 2005) edition of Educational Researcher. In “The New Teacher Education: For Better or For Worse?” (PDF) Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith provides an outstanding overview of the evolutionary changes taking place in teacher education in the United States.…
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Podcasting101 flowchart
To better explain the steps required in creating and publishing a podcast, I have created a “Podcasting101 Flowchart” using the free, open source concept mapping program CmapTools. I have linked this flowchart image within my free Podcasting101 online curriculum. (Login as a new user or as guest)
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Google Patents and domain registrations
This is news from the summer, so perhaps not “new,” but I had not heard of this before. Google has filed some patents that have implications for people registering new domain names and renewing them. From what I understand, they want to patent their alogrithm which gives search engine rank priority to domains which have…
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What’s on my hard drive?
If you are getting short on hard drive space, there are two free programs you might check out that can help identify what programs or document files are taking up the most space and perhaps can be deleted. Disk Inventory X is a free application for Mac OS X that displays a graphical summary of…
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Amazing Web 2.0 tools
Many thanks to Charlene Chausis of Lincolnshire, Illinois, for bringing the following web 2.0 tools to my attention today. Wow! Woophy is a photo website that conceptually combines to Flickr and 43places. Click on a map location and photos from that place are displayed in a right sidebar. Some really fantastic photos here. And they…
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InterWrite SchoolPad
InterWrite SchoolPad is a wireless (Bluetooth) device that lets a teacher have smartboard-type technology, but use existing projector / screen room infrastructure. And it costs less than a Smartboard. The video on their website provides a nice overview. Unfortunately, the 3 1/2 minute introducatory video uses a version of the Sonic Foundry MediasiteLive web presention…
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OS 10.4 autologin for wireless
This is rather technical and non-standard for my educational technology blog posts here– but I need to record this as much for myself as for others who may find this useful. I am now finding myself referring back to my own blog more frequently now, to remember something or share it again. Scary! 🙂 Since…
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Another 2nd Grade podcast
A second edition of “Mills Murfee Podcasts” by the 2nd graders at Murfee Elementary School is available online. Program length is 5 minutes. This show features Student News, Planting Science, Amazing Sports, Tall Tales, and a Teacher Interview! 🙂 Thanks to 3rd and 4th graders in Bob Sprankle’s classroom in Wells, Maine for the “shout…
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eSchoolNews PDFs and RSS feeds
eSchoolNews has a free monthly magazine of educational tech updates that isavailable as downloadable a PDF files and an RSS feed you can use in Bloglines or another feed aggregator.